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A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand. There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have discovered that the skin is capable of communicating with the liver. The discovery has surprised the scientists,...

Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable and increase survival rates for...

In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules that combine the advantages of...

New research by University of Vermont Associate Professor of Medicine Dr. Jeffrey Spees, and colleagues has identified a new tool that could help facilitate future...

The aim objective of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering (ICABB 2014) is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians...

The secret to building brain-controlled prostheses may be to ignore the brain entirely.In the past several years scientists have delivered a slew of advances in...

Get ready: The "new genetics" promises to change faulty genes of future generations by introducing new, functioning genes using "designer sperm." A new research report...

A hand-held ''bio pen'' developed in Wollongong will allow surgeons to draw regenerating bone material directly on to the body. The development enables customised implants...

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen -- a discovery that may lead to a better...

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Spanish universities and research centres, among which is the University of Valencia, has managed to design small synthetic molecules...

A new brain connectivity study from Penn Medicine published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found striking differences in the neural...

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance, reported by Columbia University Medical...